4-letter words containing a, b
- balt — a member of any of the Baltic-speaking peoples of the Baltic States
- bama — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person from Alabama or the southern U.S.: I’m proud to be a bama.
- bame — Black, Asian, and minority ethnic
- bamf — /bamf/ 1. [Old X-Men comics] Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in virtual reality (especially MUD) electronic fora when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality fora.
- bams — Plural form of bam.
- banc — the seat on which judges sit in court.
- band — A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
- bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
- bang — If something bangs, it makes a sudden loud noise, once or several times.
- bani — ban2
- bank — A bank is a building where a bank offers its services.
- bans — a public proclamation or edict.
- bant — string
- baor — British Army of the Rhine
- bapi — Business Application Programming Interface
- baps — a woman's breasts
- bapu — a spiritual father
- bar- — (before Jewish patronymic names) son of
- bara — Theda [thee-duh] /ˈθi də/ (Show IPA), (Theodosia Goodman) 1890–1955, U.S. actress.
- barb — A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
- bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
- bare — If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
- barf — If someone barfs, they vomit.
- bari — a port in SE Italy, capital of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast. Pop: 316 532 (2001)
- bark — When a dog barks, it makes a short, loud noise, once or several times.
- barm — the yeasty froth on fermenting malt liquors
- barn — A barn is a building on a farm in which crops or animal food can be kept.
- barp — a mound or cairn of stones
- bars — Plural form of bar.
- bart — Lionel. 1930–99, British composer and playwright. His musicals include Oliver! (1960)
- basa — The catfish Pangasius bocourti.
- base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- bash — A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people.
- bask — If you bask in the sunshine, you lie somewhere sunny and enjoy the heat.
- bass — A bass is a man with a very deep singing voice.
- bast — fibrous material obtained from the phloem of jute, hemp, flax, lime, etc, used for making rope, matting, etc
- basw — British Association of Social Workers
- bata — Ethnic ceremonial double-headed drums played in triplet in the religion of Santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria.
- bate — (of hawks) to jump violently from a perch or the falconer's fist, often hanging from the leash while struggling to escape
- bath — A bath is a container, usually a long rectangular one, which you fill with water and sit in while you wash your body.
- bats — crazy; very eccentric
- batt — a slab-shaped piece of insulating material used in building houses
- batz — (historical) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland.
- baud — a unit used to measure the speed of electronic code transmissions, equal to one unit interval per second
- bauf — (rare) alternative spelling of boff (to have sexual intercourse).
- baul — a member of a nonconformist Bengalese sect having gurus but no dogmas, rituals, religious institutions, or scriptures.
- baum — L(yman) Frank. 1856–1919, US novelist, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its sequels
- baur — a humorous anecdote
- bawd — a person who runs a brothel, esp a woman
- bawk — (language) An Awk-like string pattern matching language by Bob Brodt, distributed with MINIX.